Fitch's Chapel Cemetery List, Flemingsburg, Kentucky
My name is Caleb Jones. I am fourteen years old and live in American Fork, Utah. I am working to receive my Eagle Scout award. My ancestors lived in and around Flemingsburg Kentucky from about 1790-1890. In order to receive my Eagle Scout award I had to do a service project that would benefit a religious group or community. Out of respect for my ancestors and others, I chose to go to Flemingsburg to clean up the Fitch's Chapel Cemetery on Taylor Mill Road, where some of my ancestors, including William Carpenter (1776-1842) and his wife Jane Wilson (1781-1851), are buried.
The project took place on October 28, 2006. I was grateful for the local volunteers from the community who came to help. I have made a transcript of photographs of headstones that were taken that day. I have also typed a handwritten transcription made previously by someone else and combined it with my records. I hope this listing will help preserve information about this important cemetery and help people find their ancestors.
Click here to access the Fitch's Chapel Cemetery List.
If you have corrections or photographs that you want to add you can email me at cl_caveman at hotmail dot com or email my father at stephen_jones at byu dot edu.
Caleb Jones
May 7, 2007
These are the volunteers that helped in my project on October 28, 2006.
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Fitch's Chapel Cemetery is located North of Flemingsburg KY on Taylors Mill Road and South of Mill Creek Road. |
More information about Fitch's Chapel Cemetery
Another cemetery transcription of Fitch's Chapel was made by William M. Talley. It was published in Kentucky Ancestors, the Genealogical Quarterly of the Kentucky Historical Society, Volume Three, January, 1984, page 168. I do not have a copy of this document.
I found this on a Web page and believe it may a record of the original grant of land given to Salathiel Fitch to build the church that became known as Fitch's Chapel. - Stephen Jones
180 (a record number, possibly in the Fleming County Court House?)
22 June 1812
Salathiel Fitch and Lavina his wife of Fleming co
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Henry Burress, William Browning, James Quinn, James Knight and Zacogotha (Zaczagotha) Truitt, all of Fleming co, trustees in trust of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Tr: Conveyance of 144 poles of ground in Feming co for $1 - where they have erected a place of Worship for the use of the Methodist Epoiscopal Chruch
Clerk: Leaken D Stockton
from: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/BROWNING/2002-09/1030947627